Searching Finance is delighted to announce that Professor Jagjit Chadha has joined Searching Finance as general editor for central banking.

Some more about Jag

Jagjit Chadha is Professor of Economics at the University of Kent, and on the Advisory Board of the Centre of International Macroeconomics and Finance at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews and Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.

He was trained at University College London and the London School of Economics and then moved to the Bank of England as an Official working on Monetary Policy. He has also spent some time as Chief Quantitative Economist at BNP Paribas.

His research involves incorporating financial factors in macroeconomic models and he has acted as an advisor to many central banks throughout the world and is Editor of the series Modern Macroeconomic Policy-making by Cambridge University Press.

He has published papers in many leading economics and finance journals and by downloads of his work he is in the top 5% of academic economists worldwide.

He has a life-long love of Marvyn Gaye. Gil Scott-Heron, Miles Davies, John Coltrane, Steely Dan and the West Indian Cricket team of the 1970s. He is a fan of Leeds United.